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Mask-wearer. Immigrant. Colony of feral cats in a trenchcoat. Queer. Mx & they/she. Used to do game stuff. Anti-genAI. Toitū Te Tiriti! Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

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DanaCatCat Wears A Mask 🇳🇿😸💀🌈 @daytheelf.bsky.social · Jul 28

Want to play as cyberpunk cats in TheSprawl RPG and TheVeil RPG? 😼💀🤖 Or play as dinosaurs who are princesses in #DinosaurPrincesses? 🦖👑💖 Maybe even cat cat catting cats catcatcat #CATSnCATS? 😹😻😹
Check out my itchio page to find my games! catpurrsand.itch.io
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Casey @thecasey.bsky.social · 6h

While AI MLK explains why this is good actually

The Needling @theneedling.com · 10h

Mayor Harrell Announces Police Officers Will Recite Land Acknowledgement Before Sweeping Homeless Native Americans on Indigenous Peoples’ Day: tinyurl.com/35b9yp9f

Mayor Bruce Harrell speaking at podium with City Attorney Ann Davison behind him next to sign on wall reading "Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day"

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 1h

the degree to which i feel like i am living in the pre-title montage of a post-apocalyptic movie cannot be overstated.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2h

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 1h

This feels like a challenge to compile every instance recorded in Hansard when Winston Peters or David Seymour have been deliberately out of order and/or disorderly and received no rebuke or disciplinary action from the Speaker.💩😡
Every. Question. Time.
#nzpol

Brownlee plans crackdown on Parliament's standards after Oriini Kaipara maiden speech, haka

The Speaker suspended Parliament briefly last week after Oriini Kaipara's speech was followed by a waiata, then haka.

www.rnz.co.nz

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GONZO the Ghoastly 👻 @gonzo.bsky.social · 6h

Itis naow Howlerween Seazon

Orange and white cat on a table next to an artificial jack-o'-lantern

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Plaid Hat Games @plaidhatgames.bsky.social · 4h

The wait is over! 12:00 PM, Eastern!
Link below.
#SuperAutoPets #SuperAutoPetsCardBattle #CardGames #Kickstarter #PlaidHatGames #TeamWoodGames

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DanaCatCat Wears A Mask 🇳🇿😸💀🌈 @daytheelf.bsky.social · 4h

Hahahahahaha, excellent reference.

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MAKE WITH FRIENDS!!! (& FRIENDS) 🔜 Indie Jam @mwf-studio.bsky.social · 5h

[SHARE APPRECIATED!]

That's right, we're #makewithfriends and we need some help with our next project! It's a stylized game in UE5... wild stuff!🤯

Full job requirements on our #linkedin page: www.linkedin.com/company/mwfs...

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 9h

"Parents should be furious" said Erica Stanford.

If parents should be angry at teachers going on strike, they should be angry at why they're striking.

So have an issue with Erica then?

She can't put two things together, claims adults shouldn't, and yet knows how to teach children? Huh?

#nzpol

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Sara "Baba Yaga" Jeffers @babayaga.quest · 7h

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The Onion @theonion.com · 8h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 7h

Meanwhile, 99.998% of all my photos of the kitten:

a very blurry photo of a black kitten, her fur red in a strong ray of sunlight, coming towards the camera

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 7h

Remember the time I got into a discussion with some American liberal talking all kinds of shit about how American wars are "necessary" because they "protect American freedoms." At one point, I got tired of going back and forth with them, so I asked them to list those "freedoms." Dude went mute.

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The Cat's Whiskers @thecatswhiskers.bsky.social · 21h

The Compost never miss an opportunity to slam her and rehearse an inaccurate account of her term. And what is ‘ousted’? Outed? She lost a race fair and square. Surely that’s it. Tiresome and loathsome #nzpol

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Tory Whanau ousted from Wellington City Council

The outgoing mayor has failed to win a seat back as councillor, after three turbulent years at the helm.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Jun 28

you have a right to be angry

Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

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KOKOTÖNA is LIVE on Kickstarter 📌 | E💀C @elchupalabras.itch.io · 1d

Update 3: KOKOTÖNA, now available in Nahuatl

Update 3: 12 Hours In: Nahuatl Edition Secured! The Oracle Awaits... · KOKOTÖNA: A Grimdark RPG inspired by precolonial Mesoamerica

Hello Flesh-Bearers, long time no see lmaoThe sun has not yet set on our first day, and already you have reshaped the continent. I write this with hands trembling not from fear, but from awe. In just ...

www.kickstarter.com

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DanaCatCat Wears A Mask 🇳🇿😸💀🌈 @daytheelf.bsky.social · 1d

Let's goooooooooooo!

Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 2d

4 days to go, 94% funded, only 18 backers needed, like 10 USD to back... we got the nice numbers

CRINGE WIZARD: A TTRPG Isekai Light Novel

A light novel about a guy forced to live through the terrible TTRPG campaign he ran when he was a teenager.

www.kickstarter.com

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2d

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage

A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

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DanaCatCat Wears A Mask 🇳🇿😸💀🌈 @daytheelf.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely nothing terrifying here.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

January 2025 was warmest on record as climate change ‘overwhelms’ La Niña’s cooling

January 2025 was the warmest January on record, surpassing the previous record set by January 2024, according to satellite data from the EU’s Copernicus program. The findings were unexpected as…

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 1d

National/ACT Coalition government spends over $100,000 a year on a road cone hotline that increasingly hardly anyone uses - with each call leading to less than one road cone removed.

And they took this funding from real worksafe work

WTAF #nzpol #kiwi

After 5 months of the heralded ‘tipline’, just 204 road cones are confirmed gone

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being remov...

www.stuff.co.nz

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Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sick of RW govts trying to separate “the unions” from their members.

“The unions” can’t take strike actions without balloting members. “The unions” aren’t forcing members to strike; they can’t. Members are voting to strike, because of shite offers from this govt.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blames unions for ongoing strike action

"I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients," Christopher Luxon says.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 1d

I read your thesis.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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iam8bit @iam8bit.com · 1d

Get your Bee and PuppyCat soundtrack fix on a shiny new compact disc! 💫 https://bit.ly/bee-and-puppycat-cd

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting that in most of the 34 US states in which child marriage is legal, divorce is not legal until you’re 18.

So in other words, you can marry a child at 15, and be guaranteed 2-3 years to rape her before she can leave.

Such an advanced, civilized, enlightened nation.

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KOKOTÖNA is LIVE on Kickstarter 📌 | E💀C @elchupalabras.itch.io · 1d

The FLESH covering your bones is a stolen gift...

#KOKOTÖNA, my #MÖRKBORG hack inspired by the myths and legends of pre-colonial mesoamerica is now LIVE on #Kickstarter

Explore a brand new setting with original classes, monsters, magicks and more!

#TTRPG #RPGLatAm #Lodelrol #SelfPromoSunday

KOKOTÖNA: A Grimdark RPG inspired by precolonial Mesoamerica

A standalone, MÖRK BORG-compatible descent into a Mesoamerican-inspired apocalypse. Dark fantasy roleplaying of xokol & blood-obsidian.

www.kickstarter.com

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DanaCatCat Wears A Mask 🇳🇿😸💀🌈 @daytheelf.bsky.social · 1d

He knows what he wants, and he knows how to get it. He's such a smart pupper.

DanaCatCat Wears A Mask 🇳🇿😸💀🌈 @daytheelf.bsky.social · 1d

Hahahaha! Brilliant!